THE FOLLOWING PAGES, 



ESPECIALLY THOSE WHICH TREAT OP THE NATURAL 

 HISTORY OF SALMON, 



ARE, 

 BY PERMISSION, GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED TO 



HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND, K.G. 



IN TESTIMONY OF 



THE ADMIRATION IN WHICH HE IS HELD, 



FOR HIS ENLIGHTENED AND LIBERAL ADMINISTRATION 



OF HIS PRINCELY LAND AND WATER 



POSSESSIONS, — 



BY 

 HIS OBLIGED AND DEVOTED SERVANT, 



THE AUTHOR. 



London, March 1850. 



